Star Club will be hosting Andre Henriques and the West Country Heathens to deliver a lecture and Open Ritual on Oracular Seidr.
Andre Henriques of the West Country Heathens
This is a Norse Pagan group ritual where a Seer is (en)chanted into trance, and then answers questions from the audience, through visions and spirits communications. Everyone is welcome to ask their questions, about any aspect of their lives.
Seidr is a set of Scandinavian shamanistic and oracular practices that are today being rediscovered by modern Pagans. Through exploration of Old Norse historical sources and contemporary shamanic techniques, one variety of Seidr practice is the High Seat ritual, where Seers connect with the world of the ancestors to retrieve answers to people’s questions.
In the past, these Seers were called Volvas, Norse ‘shamans’ that would foresee the threads of fate and advise their communities, and this is the main goal of this ceremony, with an experienced Seer performing this oracular role for the event participants. No previous experience is required from the audience.
Artwork of the Three Norns by Amanda Lindupp - prints available here.
Andre has led ceremonies, lectures and workshops on the Northern Traditions of Europe for many years, and is a regular speaker at Treadwell’s bookshop online events. He has participated in many different Seidr ceremonies over the years, and has also pursued academic research for his MA dissertation on Seidr practices and personal cosmologies of contemporary Norse-inspired Pagans.
He will be joined by an experienced team of ritualists from the local group West Country Heathens to perform the ceremony.